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Ten o'clock--half-past--eleven o'clock! She heard them at the edge of the veranda--so, at last he was going.

She was able to hear their words now: "You'll be up for the tennis in the morning ?" he was saying.
"At ten," replied Ruth.
"Of course Susie's asked, too," he said--and his voice sounded careless, not at all earnest.
"Certainly," was her cousin's reply.